Illuminating-sign.



'A. RSOHNEIDER.

ILLUMINATING SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1912.

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ALBERT E. SCHNEIDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ILLUMINA'IING-SIGN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented. Dec. 22, 191%.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT E. SCHNEIDER, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inIlluminating- Signs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to illuminated signs, and has for its object toprovide a device of this character in which the lights employed toilluminate it, are 'concealed position on the base plate.

.To these ends the invention consists in the novel details ofconstruction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter describedand particularly pointed out in the claims. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of thisspecification in which like numerals designate like parts in all theviews :-.-Figure 1 is a front View of my im proved sign. Fig. 2 is across sectional view thereof with parts of a letter brokenaway for thesake of clearness. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of theletters, and

Fig. 1 is a sectional view taken on the line l4 of Fig. 2.

My improved sign consists of a back frame or base plate 1 provided'withan outwardly beveled edge 2 to form a hollow back portion 3. Contactstrips 4 and 5 are secured to the front or exposed face of the baseplate and are insulated therefrom by means of the'strips 6 and 7. Thesecontact strips are adapted to be connected in any suitable manner toelectric conducting wires for supplying the sign with electric fluid bwhich the same is illuminated.

Secured to the base plate 1 by means of the adjusting screws 8, are thecharacters or parallel with the face of the base plate, are 1 spaced 2.suitable distance therefrom and have their interior coated with asuitable reflecting material. A series of electric lamps 10 are mountedin the interior of each letter and are electrically connected by theconductors 11 to the spring contacts 12 and 13 whichare attached to theletters and which contactwith the strips 4 and 5 when the sign isassembled. Any suitable means may be employed for preventing a shortcircuit of current from one contact to the other.

The exposed surface of the base plate is suitably coated with a whiteenamel material which contrasts with that on the outer face of theletters and against which is reflected the rays of light from theelectric lamps. The mounting of the letters is such that they stand outin bold relief from the sign board and may be easily read whenilluminated at night and yet present an artistic and attractive sign byday. From the foregoing it may-also be seen that when it is desirous ofchanging the reading matter of the sign it is necessary only to removethe clamping nuts 14 from the inner ends of the adjusting screws andremove the letter from the base plate, which removal also discon nects,through the spring contacts, the electric light connections, therebydoing away with the necessity of unwiringand rewiring the differentletters every time a change of the letters is desired.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details ofconstruction and arrangements of parts without departing from the spiritof my invention and therefore I do not wish to be limited to suchfeatures except as may be required by the claim.

What is claimed as new is:

A sign comprising a plate, electric conductors mounted upon the plate,letters located in front of the plate and spaced from the same, saidletters having front walls parallel with the plate, and side portions atright angles to the plate, lamps mounted contacts electricallyconnecting the lamps In testimon whereof I afiix my signature Wlthl theconductiorsfiand bogs) cgnnectillllg in presence 0 two witnesses.

the etters with t e p ates an ri 'n t e space between the letters andpla t es and ALBERT SCHNEIDER serving as means for holding the contactsWitnesses:

against the conductors and supporting the R DOLPH BLEIER,

letters in spacedrelation from the plate. LEWIS J. J oHNsoN.

